Black Seas Of Infinity: The Best Of H.P. Lovecraft PDF

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1 Black Seas Of Infinity: The Best Of H.P. Lovecraft PDF

2 BLACK SEAS OF INFINITY Hardcover: 536 pages Publisher: SFBC Science Fiction (2001) Language: English ISBN-10: ISBN-13: Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 1.5 inches Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 starsâ Â See all reviewsâ (8 customer reviews) Best Sellers Rank: #861,020 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #77 inâ Books > Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Horror > United States First, a handy note: if you find this collection, and you're thinking of buying it (a decision I thoroughly endorse), do yourself a favor and check to make sure that you're not missing, say, page Because I can tell you, from experience, that getting 80 pages into "At the Mountains of Madness" and suddenly realizing you're missing 18 pages of the story? Not a fun time. It's the only sour note I can say that I have about this book, though, which is easily the single best anthology of Lovecraft's work I've found to date. Containing a wide range of the master's work, from "The Call of Cthulhu" and most of the major Mythos stories to standalone works like personal favorite "In the Walls of Eryx," editor Andrew Wheeler clearly picks from a fan's perspective, but his order (grouping stories that echo each other, setting short stories between longer ones) is great, and his choices superb. As he says in the introduction, not all of the best stories are here, but there's not a bad one in the batch. A great introduction for anyone just coming into Lovecraft's work, and a solid, spectacular collection for any diehard fans. No one unsettles and horrifies like Lovecraft, and if you've never read his surreal, nightmarish visions, you're in for a massive treat, and some of the best and most horrifying tales of all time. Any serious fan of horror owes it to themselves to find this volume - provided, of course, that it has all of its pages. Editor Wheeler has assembled an excellent Lovecraft overview and collection.the book contains 19 stories and totals out at 536 pages. It also includes the following:introduction by editor Andrew

3 Wheeler by LovecraftAppendix A-History of the Necronomicon by LovecraftAppendix B-Notes on Writing Weird Fiction by LovecraftAppendix C-Some Notes on NonentityAppendix D: Chronology of the Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft In these stories I found several themes that I greatly admired - Lovecraft frequent usage of New England and Essex County as a setting for many of his stories and the consistency of his horrific rational.included are some of my most admired stories: The Call of Cthulhu; "The Shadow Out of Time"; "The Lurking Fear", "The Thing on the Doorstep"; "The Dreams in the Witch House" and the masterpiece "The Shadow Over Innsmouth". Also included in this collection is, in my estimation, one clunker "At the Mountains of Madness". The story is interesting but it is so bloated and repetitious about 50 pages could have been jettisoned and what remains would have been a much better story. A thoughtful quotation by Lovecraft opens the book. I will include here because I agree with the truthfulness of it. "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation of flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age". HPL "The Call of Cthulhu" 1926 Nineteen stories from H.P. Lovecraft, the master of American weird fiction and horror-fantasy. In Lovecraft's dark and sinister tales, beneath the superficial veneer of human civilization on Earth, unbelievably ancient and evil alien beings lie dormant. They wait for the time when they will awaken and reclaim the planet, devouring, annhilitaing, and enslaving the irrelevant human presence.in these stories of bizarre magic, unspeakable cults, cyclopean lost cities, and archaic lore, Lovecraft's erudite and pedantic investigating narrator often delves too deeply into mysterious circumstances and places, discovering more and more about the terrible truth of humanities' impending doom!h.p.l., who was sadly penniless and obscure in his own time, has become legendary as an inspirational ground-breaker in the literary realms of fantasy, horror, and science-fiction!some of the classic Lovecraft stories to be found inside: The Call of Cthulhu, The Color Out of Space, The Shadow Out of Time, The Lurking Fear, Pickman's Model, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, The Festival, At the Mountains of Madness... You've heard the name "HP Lovecraft" bandied about the horror writers table and don't know where to go. You are overwhelmed by the selection of his stories, reprinted again and again and can't

4 decide which one to pick up first.well, this collection served as my introduction to the writer and it is fantastic.first off, the introduction and appendices are great resources if you get hooked (as I did) with finding other books about Lovecraft. But you only get hooked if you read his stories, and the collection here covers the gamut!a great balance is struck between Lovecraft's two main story cycles - the famous Cthulu Mythos and The Dream Cycle - as well as a few of his non-cycle stories. The most important works - "Call of Cthulu", "At The Mountains of Madness", "Shadow over Innsmouth" - are included; two of those mentioned are at least novella-length also. More importantly, there are two of Lovecraft's revision stories (both on par with the rest of the work in this collection) included. This means, as a neophyte to Lovecraftian horror, you get a great dose of the most famous works as well as a smattering of his lesser known - but equally strong - writings. Not only that, but around at least two or three of these stories have movies based on them (one was an episode from the first season of the Masters of Horror series).i can't recommend this collection enough! I have collected nearly all of Lovecrafts stories in several books. This book is a very good sampling. If you only want a single book with the best of Lovecraft, this would be it. Lovecraft is the best horror writer ever! LOVE his work. It's H.P. Lovecraft- what more can you say! Black Seas of Infinity: The Best of H.P. Lovecraft The Best of H. P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Omnibus Collection, Volume I: H.P. Lovecraft, The Complete Omnibus, Volume II: Lovecraft Country: A Novel Children of Lovecraft Lovecraft: Disturbing the Universe I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft, Volume 2 The Art Of H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos Call Of Cthulhu: Horror Roleplaying In the Worlds Of H.P. Lovecraft (5.6.1 Edition / Version 5.6.1) H.P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands, 2nd edition (Call of Cthulhu: Roleplaying Beyond the Wall of Sleep) The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (Lovecraft) Graphic Classics Volume 4: H. P. Lovecraft - 2nd Edition (Graphic Classics (Graphic Novels)) Disney Infinity: Character Encyclopedia Infinity Gauntlet The Practice of Pure Awareness: Somatic Meditation for Touching Infinity Infinity War Guardians of the Galaxy: Guardians of Infinity Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan

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